Lyse kapell (Svein Nord).

Lyse chapel, Os

Lyse chapel (Svein Nord).

Lyse chapel

The small white-painted chapel with the red brick tiled roof just south of the monastery ruins at Lyse was built in 1663 as a local chapel for the monastery estate, following the takeover of the property by the District Recorder (Stiftskriver) Niels Hanssøn Schmidt two years previously. The chapel, with its harmonic proportions, lies in the cultural landscape beside the grand monastery estate, witness to a time gone by. But even today, there is a tradition of high mass on the 2nd day of Ascension in Lyse Chapel.

The chapel is a small timbered church, with the church vestibule to the west, and a high steeple built on the western part of the nave. Small lead-framed windows let the light into nave and chancel.

The church interior has remained more or less unchanged in the course of 300 years. Floor, walls and barrel-shaped wooden ceiling are unpainted, as are the church benches also. The altarpiece in baroque style, dated around 1670, was, according to accounts, rescued out of the hospital church at St. George, which burned in the town fire of 1702. Before the fire the altarpiece had already been obtained by the owners at the time, Jacob anderssøn Widing and his family, who owned Lyse monastery estate from 1699 to 1722. The altarpiece has this inscription: “For the honour of God and adornment of the Church; St. Jacob Andersøn, Anne Michel’s Daughter1703”.

Appointments to visit the chapel must be made with the owner of Lyse monastery estate.

Etter reformasjonen vart klosteret og alt det åtte rekna som kongen sin eigedom. I 1670 kom godset i privat eige, og vel femti år seinare kjøpte Hans Formann Lysekloster. I Henrik Formann si tid (1758-1815) åtte godset 200 gardar frå Ryfylke til Nordfjord, og hadde 5-600 leiglendingar. Son hans, som også heitte Henrik, kjøpte endå fleire gardar, og åtte til slutt 3/4 av heile Osbygda. Då han døydde i 1871, vart alle gardane som ikkje høyrde til sjølve hovudgarden, selde. Dei fleste vart selde til bygslemennene.

 

Ein staseleg tofløya hovudbygning vart bygd av Hans Formann i 1722-24, med blomeprydde lerretstapet i storstova og forseggjorde steinkaminar frå 1600-talet. Denne bygningen vart riven i 1939-40 og skulle gje plass til ein ny. Då krigen kom, vart desse planane lagde til side. Den store stavløa frå seinmellomalderen er også borte. Ein av stavane bar årstalet 1519.

See also

Places in muncipality